It's one thing to use huge events like last week's Tokyo Game Show to promote your wares, but quite another to use it as a bully pulpit for condemning an entire country's creative output.
That's what one of game-maker Capcom's top producers did when he told fans exactly what he thought of his rivals in the Japanese gaming industry.
That's just sooo over
Keiji Inafune of Mega Man fame shared his thoughts on a generally disappointing show, saying: "Personally when I looked around [at] all the different games at the TGS floor, I said 'Man, Japan is over. We're done. Our game industry is finished.'"
That's a viewpoint that has been aired often in the recent past, particularly by those within the Japanese ranks, however Inafune somewhat spoiled his sermon by going on to describe his own firm's games as "kick ass".
Take it to Canada
Perhaps he was really thinking about the fact that upcoming Capcom blockbuster Dead Rising 2 is actually being produced in Canada. Oops.
Via Destructoid
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optimaximal
September 27th 2009
1. Tbh, I think he's describing the whole games industry...
90% of the larger companies are chasing the casual non-game market (read: Wii & Plastic Instrument Hero 8) and micro-payment-full MMO games, which reward excessive grinding above anything else (and seem to be the only way to make money on the Pira... Personal Computer market).
Any and all soul has been driven out of areas such as innovation by the suits, content to pay for a new floor on their house using shareholder investment in Modern Shooty-Bang Warfare 4.
It's basically left too the indies/smaller studios to try new stuff, but they either whimper rather than bang OR hit gold and thenover-expand (see: Introversion)/sell-out (see: GRIN)/wallow in self-********n(see: Jon Blow) back into obscurity.
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